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Regarding Peter Geoghegan\u2019s article\u00a0(I investigated Palantir\u2019s foothold in the British state \u2013 and what I found should worry us all, 15 July), the nine years that Greater Manchester\u2019s health system has spent without Palantir\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0result not of caution but bold conviction.<\/p>\n
Greater Manchester\u2019s integrated care board remains the only one in England to decline the Palantir-built federated data platform, having concluded that its own homegrown data capability was stronger. It built that capability with British universities, NHS clinicians and domestic technology\u00a0firms.<\/p>\n
If NHS staff don\u2019t like this tech, and if Andy Burnham believes this use of tech is turning off voters, he should carry that same approach into Downing Street and put power back in the hands of UK companies.<\/p>\n
As healthcare becomes increasingly dependent on digital platforms, cloud infrastructure, AI systems and data management technology, there is a growing risk\u00a0of an excessive reliance on a small number of dominant overseas \u2013 particularly American \u2013 technology companies.<\/p>\n
This is not anti-American sentiment; it is common sense. Downing Street should ask a simple question: if one English region can build sovereign health data infrastructure that outperforms the\u00a0imported version, why can\u2019t the\u00a0country? The domestic alternative is not hypothetical. It\u00a0is\u00a0already running. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Regarding Peter Geoghegan\u2019s article\u00a0(I investigated Palantir\u2019s foothold in the British state \u2013 and what I found should worry us all, 15 July), the nine years that Greater Manchester\u2019s health system has spent without Palantir\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0result not of caution but bold conviction. Greater Manchester\u2019s integrated care board remains the only one in England to decline the Palantir-built<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[257,1229,10429,14139],"class_list":{"0":"post-51291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-isnt","9":"tag-nhs","10":"tag-option","11":"tag-palantir"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Dr Devan Moodley<\/strong>
CEO, Health Connect Global<\/em><\/p>\n